Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 4
They were as good and happy, as busy and cheerful as ever two children in the world were, only Snow-white was more quiet and gentle than Rose-red.
Who acts: trees · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 good | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 good | case |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 happy | cc |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 good | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 busy | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 busy | case |
| 9 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 good | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cheerful | cc |
| 11 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 good | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 children | case |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 two | advmod |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 children | nummod |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cheerful | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 children | nmod |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 white | punct |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 white | advmod |
| 22 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 white | nsubj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 white | punct |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 quiet | advmod |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 quiet | cop |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 quiet | advmod |
| 27 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 good | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 gentle | cc |
| 29 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 quiet | conj |
| 30 | than | than | ADP | _ | 33 red | case |
| 31 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 red | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Rose | punct |
| 33 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 quiet | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | trees = tree | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | trees = tree not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | trees = tree not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | trees = tree not said here | as two children in the world | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | past | than Rose red; quiet property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | be | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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